c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
"It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism." — John Amery
"The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941." — Gene Tierney
"Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive." — Alexis Carrel
"No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face." — John Donne
"Theology is a science of mind applied to God." — Henry Ward Beecher
"No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today." — Joshua Foer
"Non-disclosure in the Internet Age is quickly perceived as a breach of trust. Government, corporations and each of us as individuals must recalibrate how we live and share our lives appropriate to the information now available and the expectations of others." — Simon Mainwaring
"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God." — Voltaire
"I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust." — Mahatma Gandhi
"It's important not to ditch your mates when you're in a relationship. Lots of girls do it, but you need to remember they will always be there for you." — Rachel Bilson
"I think the end goal, hopefully, is to take advantage of the attention I've gotten along the way and use it for good and build some communities, and as I get older I can continue to do things and be surrounded by things that are inspirational to me." — Reggie Watts
"Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit." — Seamus Heaney
"I'm blessed to have cool roles in these big movies." — Jeremy Renner
"But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore." — Harry Anderson
"If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either." — Joseph Wood Krutch
"To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination." — George Jean Nathan
"I am what I am, I'm doing very well in my life, and I'm thankful to God for that." — LL Cool J
"My guess is my brother would call his mom and his dad pretty regularly, a lot more than I probably did." — Jeb Bush
"Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family." — Dennis Prager
"Attitude is everything." — Diane von Furstenberg
"Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish." — Anne Bradstreet
"Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it." — Ovid
"There is nothing new in art except talent." — Anton Chekhov
"War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives." — Friedrich Nietzsche
"Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying then without money?" — Ogden Nash
"The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there's only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm." — Jimmy Carter
"When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies, I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget." — Francis Ford Coppola
"We must return to nature and nature's god." — Luther Burbank
"In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention." — Simone Weil
"A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten." — Kemal Ataturk
"I was so wild and crazy and dumb in my car. It didn't run but 30 miles an hour. You made do." — Muddy Waters
"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself." — George Bernard Shaw
"There's nobody else on the face of this earth that's playing a sport at a highest level... with a transplant. That alone continues to inspire me, because I realize throughout the whole world the struggles that people are going through. I need to inspire them the best way I can." — Alonzo Mourning
"But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for." — Anna Neagle
"We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less." — Robert Trout
"I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence." — Florence Welch
"I don't pay to have my dirty work done for me. I do it myself." — Ted Nugent
"Before I go to bed at night, I ice my face, because it closes your pores and makes a difference in the morning." — Jasmine Tookes
"If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges." — Pat Riley
"I am very much opposed to abortion personally. But I don't think it is the government's rule." — Arlen Specter
"Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself." — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge." — Isaac Bashevis Singer
"But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings." — Robert Peel
"Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true." — Napoleon Hill
"Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals." — Finley Peter Dunne
"Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it." — James M. Barrie
"The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical." — Maya Lin
"What we do every night is we change out the set list as much as we can to make sure that (fans can) go home and tell their friends they experienced something unique and cool." — Isaac Hanson
"Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society." — Jack Kingston
"A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience." — Stanley Baldwin
"When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish." — Desmond Tutu
"Part of the joy of music is listening to lots of different kinds of music and learning from it. Specifically for me, I like writing songs that move me, and what moves me are beautiful songs on the piano or the guitar and really, really heavy music." — Ryan Adams
"I can't wait for my little sisters to start dating, because it will really be fun to pick on their boyfriends." — David Gallagher
"I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often." — Nancy Sinatra
"If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief." — Benjamin Disraeli
"Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development." — Kofi Annan
"Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims." — James Q. Wilson
"You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself." — Swami Vivekananda
"I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports." — Martina Hingis
"There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure." — Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts." — Nelson Mandela
"Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning." — Roger Ascham
"I think the first and principle objective is to repeal Obamacare before it does lasting, fundamental damage to our health care system, to our individual liberty, to the relationship each of us has with his or her doctor." — Ted Cruz
"Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy." — Corazon Aquino
"In our own state, we came up with, I think, what was a very novel approach to closing the gap on the uninsured. To harmonize medical records - which was a major step in getting costs out of the system." — Jon Huntsman, Jr.
"Push-ups, sit-ups, and a strict diet of raisins. That's my plan." — Jack Black
"Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer." — Bryant H. McGill
"I've gotten to go wonderful places, meet interesting and intelligent people, and I started of course in the theatre and continue to work in the theatre where there is some intelligence involved in it." — Jeffrey Jones
"Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life." — Martin Scorsese
"In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head." — Arthur Schopenhauer
"If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does Russia." — Robert Frost
"Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything." — Elia Kazan
"One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That's what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed." — Herman Cain
"Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking." — Deepak Chopra
"What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man." — Ray Charles
"Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it." — David Hume
"Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is." — Robert Smithson
"One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth." — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
"Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week." — Will Rogers
"Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre." — Anna Torv
"The body is a sacred garment." — Martha Graham
"In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are." — Althea Gibson
"Last time I spoke to my mom she called me from a pay phone, and we didn't have the best talk. Ever since my stepdad passed away three years ago, she has been very depressed and hasn't been herself at all." — Eric West
"Don't trust somebody that don't have a troubled period." — Benjamin Walker
"I enjoy being single, but I loved being married." — Stephanie Mills
"I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old." — Robert Frost
"I'm looking forward to talking to Bill Parcells, too, and to seeing how that marriage with Jerry Jones goes." — Lisa Guerrero
"Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people." — Brad Thor
"That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization." — Charles E. Wilson
"I've always looked the same. Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a kid, I had a sailor shirt and the same old corduroy pants, and that's what I wanted to wear everyday." — Patti Smith
"I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden." — Jessica Lange
"In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war." — Arthur Henderson
"History is Philosophy teaching by example." — Thucydides
"If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus." — Emma Goldman
"As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me." — Christine Keeler
"The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance." — Herodotus
"I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian neighborhood, but my mom is Filipino-Spanish and my dad is Irish." — Shay Mitchell
"It wasn't until after private lessons and learning bass lines that I even noticed bass in the music I was listening to at that age. My ears were blown wide open." — Trevor Dunn
"John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then." — Carter Burwell
"Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close." — Ronald Reagan
"In my view, there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse, exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of our society, and I firmly believe that our nation's laws and resources need to reflect the seriousness of these terrible crimes." — Bob Ney
"Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department." — Tom Peters
"No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family." — Peace Pilgrim
"I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it's writing time, I write." — Jodi Picoult
"When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men's clothes." — Calamity Jane
"I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring." — James Whistler
"My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it." — Marion Cotillard
"No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words." — Roddy Doyle
"The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it." — Elbert Hubbard
"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre." — Gail Godwin
"The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same." — Carlos Castaneda
"When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I." — George McGovern
"And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry." — Lynn Johnston
"Every woman I've had a relationship with has found this maddening the fact that I will talk about anything on the stage, and reveal all this stuff, and yet when I'm at home, I clam up and won't discuss anything intimate or personal." — Jarvis Cocker
"My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all." — John Bolton
"Let's be honest about this the liberal agenda with failed stimulus plans and government entitlement programs is crippling our economy and our quality of life." — Alveda King
"It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is." — Desiderius Erasmus
"One of the things I've started doing lately is tracking my dreams. I feel like there's a lot of information there and you can really bring those emotions to the situations that may feel mundane or familiar. That gives them new life and gives you a new relationship with it - if that makes any sort of sense." — Jennifer Carpenter
"There's also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years." — Andrew Wiles
"As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be." — Julie Burchill
"I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on." — Robert Browning
"The funny thing is, the girls that I'm always up against for roles are pretty nice and cool, like Emma Watson. She's awesome." — Amanda Seyfried
"If a man or woman has something redone it is because he or she can no longer live with that part of their body, it is no longer bearable. Either they get help and find the strength to fight or they proceed with the act." — Emmanuelle Beart
"If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life." — Oscar Wilde
"What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument." — C. S. Lewis
"I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great." — Gael Garcia Bernal
"No matter what you're going through, as long as you have some specific emotion, whether it's positive or negative, it is all stuff that you can use on stage." — Reeve Carney
"The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself." — Doug Coupland
"No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined." — Harry Emerson Fosdick
"In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education." — Gael Garcia Bernal
"Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece." — Denis Waitley
"My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative." — Laurence Housman
"Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere." — Charles Rangel
"Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness." — Billy Ray Cyrus
"Normality is death." — Theodor Adorno
"Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing." — Ice Cube
"The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity." — Lewis Mumford
"The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand." — Frank Herbert
"Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face." — Malcolm De Chazal
"I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active." — Beverley Mitchell
"Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true." — Thomas Paine
"Give light and people will find the way." — Ella Baker
"I made a small fortune. I made a lot of money and I made a lot of other people wealthy." — Jim Cramer
"A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become." — W. H. Auden
"If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?" — Thomas Huxley
"When I was in elementary school, we weren't allowed to do sports other than cheerleading. By junior high, they let us play, but we had to come back after 6:30 p.m. to practice because there was only one gymnasium and the boys used it first." — Jackie Joyner-Kersee
"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." — Elbert Hubbard
"You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth." — Wangari Maathai
"I don't think you need religion." — Terry Jones
"In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact." — Thomas Huxley
"Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life." — Yoko Ono
"The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short." — Abraham Maslow
"Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated." — Major Owens
"A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act." — Mahatma Gandhi
"Two great talkers will not travel far together." — George Borrow
"When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?" — Khalil Gibran
"Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life." — Robert Louis Stevenson
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." — Barack Obama
"I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you can't read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way." — Michael Buble
"Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale." — Will Durst
"A life which does not go into action is a failure." — Arnold J. Toynbee
"But you know, we have a very normal family. We've had our ups and downs. You know, we've had our issues, but we've had great cause for celebration." — Julius Erving
"So many people equate money and success with happiness, especially in the music industry." — DJ Jazzy Jeff
"I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office." — John Boehner
"In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past." — Brad Henry
"Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year." — Franklin P. Adams
"I speak relatively little, except when I'm at home and I'm asking for things." — Roger Moore
"It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar, intense, vital spirit if you will, that I have never felt before in any strike." — Ray Stannard Baker
"Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well." — Dwight D. Eisenhower
"In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go." — Andy Roddick
"When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied." — Rhona Mitra
"Just hit my 75th birthday, I'm feeling great!" — Colin Powell
"Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do." — Baltasar Gracian
"Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy." — Mandy Patinkin
"A war for a great principle ennobles a nation." — Albert Pike
"I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. I don't like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me." — Naima Adedapo
"I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land." — Chief Joseph
"Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters." — Pope Paul VI
"The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man." — Louis Farrakhan
"It costs a lot of money to look this cheap." — Dolly Parton
"For me growing up, Christmas time was always the most fantastic, exciting time of year, and you'd stay up until three in the morning. You'd hear the parents wrapping in the other room but you knew that also, maybe, they were in collusion with Santa Claus." — Chris Pine
"Music was always the distraction, so it was the obvious choice to pursue. My dad always said to find a job I love to do, that way it wouldn't feel like a job. So I did that." — Jason Mraz
"I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life." — Jimmy Carter
"Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists." — Eudora Welty
"Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one." — Gloria Steinem
"Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower." — Alan Kay
"Pizza certainly has its place in school meals, but equating it with broccoli, carrots and celery seriously undermines this nation's efforts to support children's health and their ability to learn because of better school nutrition." — Jared Polis
"In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that." — Brian Eno
"I think being on a TV show is amazing but also, people get kind of used to seeing you a certain way and so it becomes a challenge to break free from that in a way." — Aubrey Plaza
"Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school." — J. C. Watts
"There are psychological repercussions to illness and we need a little more help to get through the effects not only on the afflicted but on the family. And I think there's even a place for humor in that." — Alan Thicke
"Peace Train is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions of human beings." — Cat Stevens
"Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired." — Greg Bear
"The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And my boyfriend comes and visits me on the road." — Lisa Loeb
"Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared." — Niccolo Machiavelli
"For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable." — Liam Neeson
"If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race." — Marilyn Monroe
"Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous." — Leonardo da Vinci
"All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God." — Thomas Browne
"Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes." — Peter Drucker
"Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom." — Joshua Foer
"I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in school, or it's achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it's all about." — Sanford I. Weill
"This President takes his inspiration from the capitals of Europe we look to the cities and small towns of America. This President puts his faith in government. We put our faith in the American people." — Mitt Romney
"The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free." — Ray Manzarek
"All I can tell you really is if you get to the point where someone is telling you that you are not great or not good enough, just follow your heart and don't let anybody crush your dream." — Patti LaBelle
"Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth." — John Jay Chapman
"Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience." — Evelyn Underhill
"Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote." — Edward Young
"I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots." — Johnny Depp
"Politics are a very unsatisfactory game." — Henry Adams
"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. They wake up in the morning and that's the best they're going to feel all day." — Dean Martin
"I haven't seen a player in this game, as long as I've been in it, that can't be pitched to... Barry is an outstanding ballplayer. I respect him an awful lot. I also have confidence in my pitchers that they can pitch to Barry Bonds and get him out." — Frank Robinson
"A lot of women say they love being pregnant, but I wasn't such a big fan." — Marion Jones
"The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots." — Erich Fromm
"No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough." — Roger Ebert
"May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good." — Ralph Thomas Walker
"I was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I'm the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store." — Dave Mustaine
"Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic." — Terry Eagleton
"A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind." — Eugene Ionesco
"The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born." — Lawrence Welk
"Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again." — Cat Stevens
"The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages." — Horatio Alger
"So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good." — Helen Keller
"I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked." — Alphonse Karr
"Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men." — Dante Alighieri
"I would often find myself, at the age of 21, at midnight, running down a dark street on my own with 10 men chasing me. And the fact they had cameras in their hands made that legal." — Sienna Miller
"Of course I am political. You 'ave to be don't you? Every day it is about your future, your right to that future. 'Ow can people ignore this? We 'ave to leave a good world for our children, n'est-ce pas?" — Emmanuelle Beart
"Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light." — Le Corbusier
"I love making people laugh and feel good, and that's awesome and special for me to be able to do that, but there really is nothing like kicking ass whether it's on a major scale, or whether it's in more of a dramatic fashion. Being physical and taking care of business the old-fashioned way is something that I love doing." — Dwayne Johnson
"Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves." — Paul Tournier
"Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are." — Anne Lamott
"I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies is it's a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character's costume and what that might tell about your character." — Jeff Bridges
"I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you - when life opens that door for you, I should say - I think it's important to be giving, to return the love back." — Lady Gaga
"The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron." — Horace Mann
"Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives." — Jill Scott
"Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope." — Bill Cosby
"I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more." — Jon Secada
"Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life." — Wayne Dyer
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." — Jimi Hendrix
"What's missing from pop music is danger." — Prince
"Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns." — Plato
"Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty." — Gabrielle Union
"The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life." — Aristotle
"I don't think there's a date minimum or maximum. I don't get the whole 'All right, you've got to wait three days to call after the date.' If I got a number from a girl, I'd call that night. There's no science to it for me. You just do what it is that you feel like doing." — Channing Tatum
"My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young." — Donal Logue
"The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want." — Seth Godin
"Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice?" — Elliot Richardson
"Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation." — D. Elton Trueblood
"There are two powers in the world one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women." — Muhammad Ali Jinnah
"Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us." — William Ames
"I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not." — Suzanne Farrell
"Sacred spaces can be created in any environment." — Christy Turlington
"Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear." — Jean-Paul Sartre
"Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice." — Moshe Dayan
"Life doesn't just happen it's constructed through the history of power. And that's something I am interested in and so is the art world: a world that's trying to engage socially, with a leftist slant, to work out how we got here." — Mike Mills
"A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth people seek guidance of him who is master of himself." — James Allen
"Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing." — Janet Suzman
"There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex." — Samuel Johnson
"I've always done food that can work in a set time frame. The message I'm trying to get across is, it doesn't have to take three days to do this. With planning, you can do a lot and really have quality food every day." — Emeril Lagasse
"I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or 'convulsive' beauty - beauty in the service of liberty." — Jeff Vandermeer
"I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way." — Danica McKellar
"Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable." — Ambrose Bierce
"It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer." — Robert Plant
"When I was a kid, I wanted to be serious, like Daniel Day-Lewis. No one really dreams of being a comic actor, do they? Now I realise how stupid that is - and it's because comic acting isn't taken seriously enough. It's a discipline. You know instantly - either you're funny and getting the laughs, or you're not." — Chris O'Dowd
"We're going to have more kids playing, and we're going to have a better chance of finding those players Minor sports in a community is for fun and recreation. For everyone." — Bobby Orr
"Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values." — Sidney Hook
"It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music." — Tom Petty
"When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems." — Marvin Minsky
"Comedy can be, especially in a writer's room, really aggressive, kind of a very male-dominated room, and it would be hard for women. It's not a nurturing place. It's not like a lot of women are going to say, I can't wait to live that lifestyle and be in a writer's room until 2 or 3 a.m." — Ellen DeGeneres
"My mom moved up between Leland and Greenville when I was just a little tot." — Little Milton
"Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors but they are seldom or ever inventors." — Voltaire
"Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others." — Erich Fromm
"A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics." — Peter Jennings
"I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go." — David Bowie
"It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so." — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves." — Derek Walcott
"The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was." — John Redwood
"Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance." — Jean de La Fontaine
"The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork." — Igor Sikorsky
"I'm comfortable only when there's a mutual attraction. That's what anyone wants. If I find out she's not attracted to me, it brings down my level of attraction to her. If I'm interested and find out she's not, I tend to cool off." — Nathan Fillion
"Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace." — Albert Schweitzer
"Becoming food savvy is one thing, but it's amazing how fast savvy turns to snooty, and snooty leaves you preparing three-hour meals that break your budget and that the kids won't even eat." — Jeffrey Kluger
"I have those dreams that you can't put into words." — Harry Connick, Jr.
"It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible." — Desmond Tutu
"I'm not a businessperson. I have no sense of money. My mom does everything for me. She makes all my decisions for me, and even buys my clothes. She's very protective." — Coco Lee
"It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters." — Jane Campion
"I grew up not really having anything, so the idea that I can take care of my family and my friends now is a really cool bonus." — Katy Perry
"We're going to raise a lot of money for cancer awareness, give some to the American Cancer Society and hopefully make a big difference." — LL Cool J
"Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling." — Edna Ferber
"We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology." — Jeremy Rifkin
"It is very easy to love alone." — Gertrude Stein
"If you pray enough for things, I am proof that they can happen. I feel like a kid on Christmas day now, every day. It's something I have wanted for a long time and I am as happy as anyone to be here. It is great to be back at my first love." — Robbie Fowler
"The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits." — M. Night Shyamalan
"The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother." — Charles Dickens
"America is the story of everyday people who did extraordinary things. A story woven deep into the fabric of our society." — Marco Rubio
"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind." — Mahatma Gandhi
"All men want to be treated like kings in a relationship, and I think if women don't indulge that sometimes, their men are likely to stray and look for someone who can give that to them." — Giada De Laurentiis
"The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society." — Joe Biden
"Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other." — Thomas Jefferson
"That's what acting is - it's about... having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives." — Kerry Washington
"To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult." — Isaac Asimov
"Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke." — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"Education is extremely important to the Hispanic community, as well as faith, and certainly working hard." — Luis Fortuno
"Love is the beauty of the soul." — Saint Augustine
"What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged." — Salma Hayek
"The proliferation of outlets that digital technology has enabled has itself contributed to the changing nature of what we regard as 'news' and the way in which many citizens perceive politics." — Malcolm Turnbull
"Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme." — Francis Beaumont
"May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage." — Yahya Jammeh
"Cock your hat - angles are attitudes." — Frank Sinatra
"Col. Shaffer is prohibited by his lawyer from talking. He's at great risk. They want to take away his pay and his health care benefits so they can hold it over his head and not allow him to talk while he's under suspension. This is not America." — Curt Weldon
"You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire." — Larry Brown
"A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'" — Barack Obama
"Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us." — Voltaire
"The real art of conducting consists in transitions." — Gustav Mahler
"Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles." — Henry Ward Beecher
"A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics." — Howard Fineman
"I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas." — Ron Paul